By Karen Cord Taylor The trash is picked up early on trash days. But the recycling trucks come by later—sometimes much later. This problem occurs most frequently in the North End and South End and on Beacon Hill among the…
Author: Beacon Hill Times Staff
BHCA Community Corner
Downtown Boston Gas Leak Tagging Event To raise awareness about the estimated 215 methane gas leaks located downtown, BHCA Green Committee members will join volunteers from all over Boston at noon on Saturday, December 10 at the intersection of Commonwealth…
Winter Wonderland Has Transformed City Hall Plaza
By Beth Treffeisen As the temperatures start to drop and the festive season comes to light, a new kind of experience will be brightening up the otherwise dim City Hall Plaza in the heart of downtown Boston. New England’s first,…
Hibernate All Winter Long with Beacon Hill’s Lala Rokh and Charles Street Liquors
By Beth Treffeisen This winter, cozy up, stay indoors and order in from Beacon Hill’s Persian restaurant Lala Rokh and pair it with a nice bottle of wine from Charles Street Liquors. By ordering online, you can get high-end Iranian…
Student Entrepreneur Experiences Crowdfunding Through Suffolk University Course
Suffolk University has introduced one of the nation’s first experiential courses on crowdfunding, where students are launching campaigns to fund their own start-up companies through Kickstarter and Indiegogo. James Testa of East Boston, a Suffolk senior and Entrepreneurship major, is…
Taking “Time In” – The Healing Process of Massage is Similar to Meditation
By Zoe Arguello As we may already know that the burdens of life, the stresses of work and family, the emotional tension or aloneness that keep the body bound and its cells entrenched in feelings of entrapment, repressed emotions of…
Diane Bergeron,Michael Minogue and Mutual of America Honored at Nov 12 Gala
The Visiting Nurse Association of Boston honored Heroes in Health Care during the nonprofit’s 11th annual Gala on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Mandarin Oriental, 776 Boylston St., Boston. The Gala was VNA of Boston’s signature fundraising event and has…
Police Briefs 12-06-2016
BEACON HILL BEAT From Boston Police Area A-1 Breaking and Entering – Commercial 11/25/16 12:45am – A Stuart Street restaurant and brewery reported the staff failed to lock the front door at closing at 12:45 a.m. on Nov. 23, and…
Letter to the Editor
Compassionate reader weighs in homelessness issue With this letter I wish to add to the Beacon Hill Times Nov.18 issue’s article about the “town hall” meeting on homelessness. I am including participants’ comments in order to reflect the Beacon Hill…
Making Gingerbread Houses
Meghan Cleary and her son Gus, 3, worked to add decorations to their gingerbread house roof during the Hampshire House’s Gingerbread House Brunch on Sunday, Nov. 27. Gus carefully squeezed frosting on before adding marshmallows and gumdrops. The Hampshire House…